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Price Gap Puts Spice in Sugar-Quota Fight

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Carolyn Cui

Updated March 15, 2010 12:01 a.m. ET

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The gap between what Americans and the rest of the world pay for sugar has reached its widest level in at least a decade, breathing new life into the battle over import quotas that prop up the price of the sweet stuff in the U.S.